Well, I am back and have recovered from my 7+ hour stink @ the Las Vegas McCarran airport (long story) so I wanted to post about what was new and exciting at this years CES.

Yes, all the 'stunt' items were there, Panasonic had a 150" 4K plasma, and dropped the price of there 103" to only $70K, no price was mentioned for the 150".

Pioneer was showing off a plasma that was ~ 1/2 inch thick, while it was amazing to see, it was under poor lighting and seemed to have the worst black level I've seen on a display in years. Perhaps future generations will improve on this if they stay in the plasma business now that Fujitsu has bailed.

Sony was doing a demo of their Cinema 4K projector with a massive crowd actually watching people play a video game...... what more can I say on this one?

Planar (Runco's lower level line) showed off there new 1080p single chip projectors that are available at real world prices ($6 and $8K) with an amazing feature set and build quality you'd expect from them. We got a preview of them @ CEDIA and the picture they offer is amazingly good especially at this price.

LCD's across the board are rapidly improving in technology and picture quality while getting smaller in size. Several folks were showing super thin (1.2/1.5 inch) panels while the introduction of 120 Hz panels and adaptive motion flow technology seemed everywhere, even Vizio has them now and their new sets will once again set the price/performance bar for the rest of the pack.

Of course the show wasn't without it's glitches, gizmodo shut off the displays at several booths to harass the promoters. See the link below if you're interested.